Machine for making barrels



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MACHINE POR MAKING BARRELS, Kms, aw. No. 533,034. Patented JamZZ, 1895.

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. Y E. CAMPBELL. MACHINE PoR MAKING BARRELS, KBGS, 6.0.

- No. 533,034. Patented Jan. 22, 1895.

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HENRY CAMPBELL, oE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BARRELs, KEGs, ato.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters vPatent No. 533,034, dated January22,1895. Application led September 6, 1894. Serial 110.522,266. (Nomodel.) Y

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, HENRY CAMPBELL, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and residing at -the city of Baltimore, State of Maryland, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for MakingBarrels, Kegs, &c., of which the following is a specification. f

My invention relates to that class of barrelmaking apparatus in whichthe heads of the barrel, keg, or other article composed of staves,properly held with relation to 'each other, are rotated while the stavesare applied successively thereto, the stavesA being subsequentlywindlassed and secured in place in any suitable manner to form acomplete barrel or other receptacle.

It is the object of the invention to simplify the machine and render it`more certain and efficient in operation, providing means by whichbarrels, Y dac., may be manufactured with great economy by either handor other power.

With such object in view my invention consists in the parts andcombinations thereof hereinafter more particularly set forth.

In order to make the invention more clearly understood I have shown inthe accompanying drawings means for carrying it into practical effect,without limiting Iny improve ments, in their useful applications, to theparticular construction which, for the sake of illustration, I havedelineated.

In said drawings:-Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of abarrel making machine embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a transversesectional view on line II-II, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectionalview on line III-III, Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates a stand or table supported inanysuitable manner, as by legs, portions of which are indicated at 2.

3 and 4 indicate frames or bearing brackets rigidly mounted 'upon the`table 1 and provided. at 5 Withbearings in which are mounted in linewith each other longitudinal shafts 6 and 7. The outer end of the shaft6 is preferably furnished with an additional support gozsuch as abearing bracket 8, and may be provided with means by which it may beconveniently turned by hand or by power. In the construction shown suchmeans consist f a hand wheel 9. The shafts 6 and 7 are free'to turn intheir bearings 5 and are provided at their inner ends with disks 10, orwith equivalent plates or radial arms. Each shaft is further providedwith a central projecting point 11 which is preferably screw threaded sothat it may readily engage and hold the barrel head. When the latter isso held it will rest against and be kept in a 'vertical position, or ina position transverse to the axis of the machine, by the disks or arms10.

12 and 13 are transverse supporting disks or frames secured respectivelyto the shafts 6 and 7 and movable therewith. These disks are provided atintervals on their periphery with blocks or other supports 14, which maybe cast integral with the disks, and upon which are mounted and securedin place by bolts 15, supporting and ratchet rings 16, 17. The ratchetsof said rings are indicated at 18 ane are adapted to be engaged by oneor more pawls 19 pivotally mounted upon one or both ofthe frames 3 and 4so as to hold the shafts carrying the barrel heads from backwardrotation. A forward rotation of said rings and their'attached shafts,disks and barrel heads, is effected by hooks or pawls 2O adapted toengage said ratchets and provided with shanks 21 extending down to andoperated by a treadle or other. mechanism not illustrated. It will beobserved that each downward movements of the hook 20 will turn theratchets one or more teeth according to the length of movement of thehooks, and that during the upward or return movement of the hooks theparts will be held from rotation by the pawl or pawls 19. At or near theinner faces of the rings 16 and 17, said rings areY formed withshoulders 22 which are adapted to temporarily su pport the extreme endor ends of the barrel staves as the latter are fed into the machine byhand or otherwise.

said rings are also formed annular grooves or recesses 23 adapted toreceive catch-hoops 24, ready to be moved longitudinally of the machineover the ends of the staves after the latter are in place around theedges of the Suclrlongitudinal movement barrel heads.

In the inner faces of y IOO is imparted at the proper time to thecatchhoops by lugs 25, which are mounted and adapted to reciprocate inbearings or openings 26 in the frames 3 and 4, the inner ends of saidrods passing at such times through segmental spaces 27 within the rings16 and 17 and between the blocks 14. The rods 25 may be thus actuated byany suitable mechanism. In the construction illustrated they areattached at their outer ends to arms 28 fixed on hubs 29, the latterfitting and sliding upon the shafts 6 and 7, the latter movement beingeffected by actuating levers 30.

31 and 32 are posts fixed on the base 1 and carrying at their upperends, opposite and near the ends of the barrel, pulleys 33 over whichpass windlass ropes 3i and 35. The lower ends of the latter arepreferably provided with weights 36 or other means for causing thedesired degree of tension in the ropes, and their upper ends areattached to hooks or arms 37 carried by the rings 16 and 17.

The disks 12 and 13 are longitudinally movable upon their shafts so aseither to support the ends of the staves or release them and allow theirengagement with the barrel heads. 38 indicates hand levers connectedwith the disks for this purpose.

The machine being constructed and arranged in the manner abovedescribed, or in any equivalent manner, its mode of operation is asfollows: Catch-hoops 24 are first placed in the recesses 23 of thesupporting disks, the rods 25 being in their outermost or retractedposition. Barrel heads are then centered and screwed upon the points 11at each end of the machine. The stave supporting ring at one end of themachine is moved slightly inward relative to the barrel head so thatthel staves when placed in the machine will rest at that end upon itsshoulder 22, in Fig. 1 the ring 16 being shown in this position. Thestaves S are then placed in position one after the other their righthand ends resting directly upon the barrel head II, at that end of themachine, with the croze of the staves properly engaging the beveled edgeof the head, and their left hand ends resting upon the shoulder 22 ofthering 16. As fast as the staves are thus put in place the shaft andbarrel heads are rotated in such direction as to take up and wind uponthe exteriors of the staves the windlassing ropes 3l and 35, suchrotation being effected by the hooks 20 as already described. All of thestaves being thus applied and the barrel having made a completerotation, the catch-hoop at the right hand end of the machine is thrustinward over the ends of the staves soV as to secure them tightly uponthe head I-I. The windlassing rope 34 is then drawn tight so as to bendinward the left hand ends of the staves and cause them to engage thehead I-l, the supporting ring 16 having been preliminarily moved outwardfrom within the stave-ends. The catch-hoop at this end of the barrel isthen thrust inward over the ends ofthe staves; and the barrel is thenreleased from the machine by disengaging the ends of the ropes from thearms 37, unwrapping them from the barrel and replacing them in positionupon said arms for the next operation, andfurther by the outwardmovement of the shafts 6 and 7 and their disks 10 away from the barrelheads.

The tension upon the windlassing ropes for the above described operationmay be effected by the rotation of the barrel or by other equivalent orpreferred means.

The barrel when released from the machine may have applied to it suchadditional hoops as are desired.

1. In a barrel machine the combination of means for holding and rotatingthe barrel heads, and a longitudinally movable supporting ring orbracket for temporarily supporting the ends of the staves at one end ofthe machine, substantially as set forth.

2. In a barrel machine the combination of means for supporting androtating the barrel heads, and windlassing ropes for holding tho stavesas they are applied to the heads, substantially as set forth.

3. In a barrel machine the combination of means for supporting androtating the barrel heads, means for holding a hoop in proper relationto the end of the barrel, and rods for moving said hoop inward and aWindlassing rope for holding the staves as they are applied to theheads, substantially as set forth.

4c. In a barrel machine the combination of means for supporting androtating the barrel heads, supports for the staves, rotating means, aholder for a hoop at the end of the barrel, devices for forcing the sameover the ends of the staves, and a windlassing rope for holding thestaves as they are applied to the heads, substantially as set forth.

5. In a barrel machine the combination of means for holding the barrelheads, shafts supporting said holding means, disks on said shaftsprovided with ratchets and hooks or pawls for simultaneously operatingthe latter and a windlassing rope for holding the staves as they areapplied to the heads, substantially as set forth.

6. In a barrel making machine the combination of rotary shafts providedwith means for holding the barrel heads, disks mounted on said shaftsprovided with a recess for a hoop and having means for supporting theends of the staves, rods for forcing the hoops over the ends of thestaves, windlassing ropes for holding the latter as they are applied tothe barrel head and to said supporting means,

and mechanism for rotating said shafts,sub t stantially as set forth.

7. In a barrel machine the combination of frames provided with `bearingsin line with each other, shafts mounted in said bearings and adapted tocarry the barrel heads, a disk mounted on one of the shafts,longitudinally IOO movable, adapted to temporarily support the InWitness whereof I have hereunto signed ends of the staves away from thehead, and my name in the presence vof two Witnesses. having a recess fora hoop, and rods or pushers mounted in one of said frames and adaptedHENRY CAMPBELL' to engage the hoop to force the latter over theVVtnesses:

staves after the latter have been applied to THos. KELL BRADFORD,

the barrel heads, substantially as set forth. SAML. D. BRADFORD.

